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Personnel Security Transition Manager
London, UK
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The Integrated Corporate Services (ICS) is a new shared corporate service, launched in July 2023. It provides corporate services (HR, Finance, Digital, Commercial, Security and Estates) across the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT).
Our team of just over 300 professionals will be leading the way in how these functions will be delivered in the future. Our ambition is to be the leading provider of integrated corporate services for government and set the standard for quality, efficiency, and innovation in our field.
We offer great working benefits including a world-class pension, flexible working options and a career where your learning and development is taken seriously. We are enormously proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We support candidates with adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Information about disability confidence and just some examples of the adjustments that you can request can be found in the reasonable adjustment section below.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is
found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.
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Job description
Are you interested in joining a high-performing team of security professionals? If you are ready to challenge yourself and become a member of a specialist security team, then we have a great opportunity for you!
This is a new role within the Personnel Security team within the department security unit (DSU). Our unit is responsible for all aspects of physical, information, IT and personnel security, as well as resilience. The DSU sits within the Integrated Corporate Services function (ICS), providing shared services to the two new departments: the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), and the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). The post holder will report to the Grade 6 Security Adviser for Physical and Personnel Security and manage the personnel security team. The role will additionally support security transition activities as a result of Machinery of Government changes.
You will be a part of the Government Security Profession. There are a wide variety of roles, specialisms and career paths for Government Security Professionals who work throughout the Civil Service helping to protect the UK Government and our citizens both at home and overseas.
The team has a positive, welcoming, and inclusive culture, and we are looking for pro-active and engaged team members to join us and help to deliver a high-quality security service to DESNZ and DSIT directorates and partner organisations.
Person specification
Key responsibilities
- Lead on Personnel Security transition work, including the machinery of government change, new vetting policy, and UKSV decision making
- Support the programme governance underpinning the Machinery of Government changes in progress
- Coordinate resource application supporting transition activities, including GovPass
- Support Personnel Security governance responsibilities, including the vetting service for partner organisations, managing annual MOUs, forecasts, and monthly reporting
- Scope and run any resulting project delivery of a case management system that’s fully coordinated with HR and Digital processes and tools, including joiners/movers/leavers
- Professionalise the personnel security service line, creating a cohesive and replicable service model, underpinned by robust processes and policies.
- Manage the vetting team process and policy documents in alignment with UKSV standards, ensuring regular review
- Assist with central government personnel security commissions, including regular reviews of security levels and implementing changes to policy
- Undertake joint decision-making for complex personnel security vetting cases as part of the escalation process, ensuring rigorous decision-making and a robust case rationale
- Ensure continuous improvement of the insider risk and aftercare programmes in collaboration with the Senior Personnel Security Manager
- Be a role model for the security community, modelling Civil Service values to champion and develop the profession across government
- Fulfilling an occasional on-call requirement
Skills and experience
We would love to hear from you if you have a genuine interest in security and improving departmental security culture.
Essential criteria
Our ideal candidate will: –
- Be an excellent communicator, who can clearly provide accurate guidance to colleagues
- Be customer-focused, ensuring that the services provided to our departments is pragmatic and of a high quality
- Be able to build effective relationships, engage and negotiate with key stakeholders and staff at all levels of seniority
- Be detail orientated, and continuously identify the potential for improvements in processes, including proactively suggesting solutions
- Be able to analyse large sets of data to produce relevant management information for seniors
- Deliver outcomes at pace, on time and to standard, regularly monitoring your work against targets, and acting promptly to keep work on track and maintain performance
- Project management experience, although not crucial, it would also help your application if you have any of the following skills or experience:
- Experience in planning and delivering protective personnel security (ideally from working in a central government organisation) as well as a desire to keep learning
- Experience of contractual or service level agreements, delivering services to other organisations and acting as an intelligent customer.
Successful candidates must pass disclosure and barring security checks. If successful, you must also hold or be willing and able to obtain security clearance to SC level. You do not need to already hold SC to apply. We will sponsor you through the process but any offer will be conditional until SC is obtained. You must also be willing to undergo DV if requested.
Individuals applying for security clearance should usually have been continuously resident in the UK for the following periods immediately before the clearance is launched:
SC – 5 years
DV – 10 years
If you have spent more than six months resident outside the UK within these time-frames then you are still encouraged to apply. Eligibility for security clearances will be assessed on a case-by-case basis but in some instances, it may not be possible to take forward applications from those who do not meet residency requirements.
Security experience and knowledge of vetting or supporting a vetting service would be useful, but not crucial, as we can offer the training you need. If you have not worked in a vetting role before but have strong administrative, organisational and other transferable skills, you should still apply.
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Managing a Quality Service
- Delivering at Pace
- Changing and Improving
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Making Effective Decisions
Benefits
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
- A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
- Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
- An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
- Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
- A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.
Office attendance
The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home-based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.
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Selection process details
After submission of the first stage of your application you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Verbal Test, Civil Service Numerical Test, Civil Service Judgement Test. If you successfully pass the test, you will be invited to complete the final stage of the application.
Please complete the online tests as soon as possible (within 24-48 hours is recommended), the closing date for the tests is 23:55 on 17/02/2025. If you fail to complete the online test before the deadline your application will be withdrawn. Guidance for the test will be available when you are invited to take the test. The tests are administered online and accessed via the CS Jobs website.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV, personal statement and a behavioural statement.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Please use your personal statement (in no more than 1000 words) to provide an example of where you have led organisational-wide transition.
Applications will be sifted on the behavioural statement, CV, and personal statement.
In the event of a large number of applicants, applications will be sifted on the personal statement.
Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
The interview will consist of behaviour-based questions.
Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
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Reasonable Adjustment
We are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions.
Information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that we offer to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our DESNZ Candidate Guidance. A DESNZ Plain Text Version of the guidance is also available.
We encourage candidates to discuss their adjustment needs by emailing the job contact which can be found under the contact point for applicants’ section.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
A location-based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position.
Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
Any move to the Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
DESNZ does not normally offer full home working (i.e., working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home).
DESNZ cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign.
DESNZ holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotland on your behalf.
However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Vetting
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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